When they are making the garden, that turns out to be only corn, it is not that big, only about 10 rows. Later in the movie it shows the garden to be a giant corn field that the lion lives in. [They worked on the garden more than just that one day. They made the garden bigger; it just wasn't shown onscreen.]
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Secondhand Lions (2003) - 10 corrections
Directed by Tim McCanlies, starring Haley Joel Osment, Josh Lucas, Kyra Sedgwick, Michael Caine, Nicky Katt, Robert Duvall (add more)
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When they are making the garden, that turns out to be only corn, it is not that big, only about 10 rows. Later in the movie it shows the garden to be a giant corn field that the lion lives in. [They worked on the garden more than just that one day. They made the garden bigger; it just wasn't shown onscreen.]
Early in the movie, the brothers shoot pamphlets out of a salesman's hand, and we see the shredded paper lying on the ground as the car speeds away.The paper is no longer there when the next two salesman drive up. [They did not give a specific time to when the next two show up. It seems logical that the paper probably blew away by the time the next two show up.]
The brothers must have been gone for about 50 years, not 40. They were around 18-20 when they went to Europe at start of WW1. 40 years later would bring them home in mid-50's. But the movie is in the mid-60's. So they had to have been gone for about 50 years. [If you look at the cars they have and the clothes they wear there is no way the movie could have been taking place in the mid-60's.]
In the scene where Hailey Joel Osmont first goes upstairs to his room after arriving at the home of his two uncles, he plops his suitcase on the twin bed and a cloud of dust poofs up causing him to cough indicating that the room hasn't been cleaned for quite some time. However, when he then goes to plop himself on the bed which also disturbs the covers, there isn't one shred of evidence of any dust on the bedcovers which should have also poofed up into the air from his body weight. [You'll notice that he doesn't "plop" himself onto the bed, but rather he settles in rather carefully as to not disturb the dust.]
Throughout the movie Young Hub is shown riding a gray (white) horse. This is all fine and good except for the fact that the horse is an albino with no skin pigment and therefore no protection from the harsh glare of the Egyptian sun. All white horses bred in Africa have black skin for this reason, they could not survive otherwise. [This is not quite a mistake. The images of the story that Walt is being told are not flashback images. They are no more and no less than Walt's imagination. These scenes are filmed with a completely diferent style and color quality to help illustrate this. One evidence that these images are not to be taken as flashbacks is in the two different times that we see how Hub and Garth escaped from the dungeon of the Sultan. The first version Garth tells - where Garth tells how it was he who killed the guards - and the second version - where Garth can't even get his gun out until the end of the fight - cannot both be flashback. The special features on the DVD talk about these scenes specifically as being purely in Walt's head.]
It says at the end that they died well into their 90s, but were almost 20 during the 1st world war. The car shown in the scene is a later model so they would have been over 100. [In the Commentary, the director says the modern day scenes are taking place in the early 1990's. He also said the brothers were 18 when their adventures start, which would put brothers into their 90's at the end of the film.]
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